This video was about the different ways different cultures deal with death. The

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This video was about the different ways different cultures deal with death. The host of this video, Tres, also goes into about the people who are left behind after the death of their loved one. He goes on and discusses how we should feel about death and how there is no right or wrong way that people should feel about death. This video discusses how all cultures practice the same ideas of encasement, a mausoleum or a tomb subsurface, internment, which is a burial of some kind, cremation, burning of the body, and exposure, which is leaving the body out in the open. The cultures that are talked about in this video are ancient England, ancient Rome, Americans, Pacific Native Americans, natives of the Mississippi drainage area and Southeast and Southwest natives. In ancient England they out all of the wealth into building giant halls and then they would burn them down. They were considered halls of the dead they used the ashes and buried people in them and they created burial structures and when a wealthy person died they burned down those halls. In ancient Rome, rich people were buried in cemeteries but the cemeteries ran along the roads into the cities that the person was from. If you were wealthy you would be buries in a fancy cemetery or even a tomb and if you weren’t wealthy you would get to buries there due to cultural taboos of diseases and sanitation reasons and for that many people were buries outside of the cities. If you were poor, you would be buried in something called a booty coolie and that was an open mass grave that all poor people were thrown into. Slaves and the urban poor didn’t even make it into the pitti coolie, they were tossed outside the gates of town and were just left there. America on the other hand is completely different from the English, Romans and Europeans. We have different environments, social structures, different spiritual beliefs and different practices when it came to death. Pacific Native Americans used above ground burials where they used trees and scaffolds, they used canoes and boxes that they put on stilts and that way the person could be left out to decay over time. Natives of the Mississippi drainage area created Earth and constructions such as chambered mounds and crematory mounds where they could put the ashes of someone who died or the actual bodies and leave them there to go to their ancestors or be allowed to rest. Southeast and Southwest natives used cemeteries where they buried using urns. They also have used earthenware jars depending on where you lived. Grief however does not deal with in terms of wealth or status, it deals with the individual person and their own feelings you get when someone dies and that’s something completely different then the cultural experiences or religion. Everyone experiences grieve, it’s apart of life and apart of who we are as a human being. Everyone grieves in many different ways and grieve how they see fit and how they want to deal with it. There is no right or wrong way to grieve and there is no cultural way to grieve also.

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Death is inevitable to any life form on earth. Across various cultures of this world people have different customs and ceremonies to give last rites for their people. Somethings are common with respect to these rites as a wealthy or socially acclaimed persons recieved a different and more dignified last rites than the poor people. There's no hard and fast rule for these rites across the cultures. The other aspect of death is dealing with grief. Grieving is an eminent part of human beings as everyone goes through it.The process of dealing grief may vary culturally but has same the experience across the cultures, of loosing a beloved person to death.

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